4th axis as a "poor man's lathe"

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This thread had over 100k views, and considering that, amazingly few comments, so it is sort of a monologue, but because of the fairly high interest, I will continue.

The recent updates of my lathe turned out to be really worth wile, the 600 W servo is really making magic. Cuts steel as I never could do before and not really thought it ever will. The new servo is also a lot quieter, which is good as well, so I am very happy with it. I also changed the tool holder saddle plate from aluminium to steel, and I think also that improves things. My next plans are to actually make it a bit wider and maybe also taller. As it is, the "throat" (the space below the chuck) is too narrow, it does not swallow as much chips and swarf as I want to. It is fine for very small jobs, but as soon as I want to make something bigger, it needs to be cleaned a bit too often. Anyway, using it is a real joy now.

This is what I made on it this week:



The round bar was not turned down, it was a 12 mm diameter 48 mm long piece readily available, but most of the work is done on my DIY CNC lathe.